As football season nears, Spectrum customers may lose ESPN and Disney-owned channels
Spectrum cable customers are expected to lose Disney-owned cable channels like ESPN as the college football season is about to start.
Spectrum cable customers are expected to lose Disney-owned cable channels like ESPN as the college football season is about to start.
If the Bally Sports RSNs are dropped by Comcast and/or DirecTV, tech companies could be poised to strike.
Add a litany of tech companies to the list of possible “strategic partners” for ESPN. Per the New...
John Ourand of Sports Business Journal found, after consultation with sources, that private equity seems likely to be the "strategic partner" ESPN might work with.
Myers would be a huge boost to ESPN's NBA coverage.
"My contract is up soon and I expect that I'll be leaving at the end of it."
This looks to be the first of three waves of ESPN layoffs, with another one also focusing not on on-air talent by the summer, followed by cutbacks to on-air talent.
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"I do think they're going to go to some other people who make big numbers and say 'You can stay, but we're going to cut you in half.' People are going to have decisions to make on that."
"I love my job at the NBA. I have no intention of going anywhere."
The NBA commissioner is notably among a list of names already being put forward as Bob Iger's next successor.
The two shows lasted just two seasons on the Disney+ streaming platform before they were given the ax.
"Spinning [off] ESPN/ABC is the best path forward, and we see it as a reasonably probable late-’23 event."
"A senior Disney official cited Mr. Rice’s decision to renew two struggling shows on the Disney+ streaming service—“The Mighty Ducks” and “Big Shot”—as examples of questionable deal-making. Both shows cost more than $50 million and neither had shown the type of success that merited additional seasons."
The 2015 Newbery Medal-winning book has an official home for its television adaptation.
While linear ESPN saw large losses, ESPN+ added almost 7 million subscribers.
It's pretty easy to see what Disney's goal is here.
Estevez says "My exit from the show was due to a myriad of creative differences – any other narrative is false," but he doesn't actually address if he met the vaccine mandate that would have been required for him to continue on the show.
Deadline's Nellie Andreeva reported ABC Signature "made the decision not to pick up Estevez’s option for Season 2 after weeks of back and forth with his team over the show’s Covid vaccination requirement."
"In addition to the medical apprehensions regarding my desire to have another child in regards to receiving this injection¹, I am also so morally and ethically not aligned with this. And I've had to really dig deep and analyze my values and my morals, and ultimately I need to put them first."
"Our new deal with the NCTC will allow member operators to continue serving their customers across the country by delivering Disney’s robust and expansive portfolio of networks, which includes the addition of the ACC Network."